d20 Emerald Press Adventure Settings Labyrinth of Oversoul.pdf

T HE L ABYRINTH OF O VERSOUL

by Jason M. Hardy

Dedication: To my father, who first introduced me to Tolkein, Feist, and many other good friends.

Artist

Kathleen Hardy

Contributing writer

Todd Crapper

Cover Design

Sean C. Frolich

Cartographer

Clayton Bunce

Editor/Layout

George “Clay” Mitchell

Playtesters

Craig McNamee, Bob Clouatre, Scott Davis, Richard Eller, Bill McGuigan, Christopher Norkus

Emerald Press

First Edition, March 2004

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Author’’s Introductiion

I think I’ve traced my problem back to high school, the source of so many of life’s difficulties. I alternated reading books by David Eddings, Stephen

R. Donaldson, and Raymond Feist with books by Robert Ludlum, Frederick Forsyth, and, if I was feeling adult, John Le Carré. All these books

have now blended together into a fictional mental mash, and I often remember pieces of them better than a book I just finished a week ago. Not

that they’re better, they just found my brain at the good, impressionable time.

I say this by way of explaining why the city of Oversoul is the way it is. It’s got magic and monsters and such since it is, after all, a fantasy set-

ting, but it’s also got as much politics and intrigue as I could squeeze into a 6,000-person town. That’s the stuff that really gets my blood racing.

Don’t get me wrong, I love taking on the insanely difficult beasty, but my best memories of RPG sessions came from interactions with other peo-

ple, PCs and NPCs alike. If everyone still capable of breathing was trying to double-cross each other fifteen ways ‘til Tuesday, all the while going

up against ugly monsters and fiendish traps, then I was happy as a clam, until, of course, someone double-crossed me.

While writing this, I had fun imagining the different futures that lay ahead for Oversoul as it got into the hands of various gaming groups. I hope,

somewhere, the Blond Rope Faction finally breaks through their wall, finds untold riches, and dominates the town. I hope the mossmen make

their move, taking out faction leaders and threatening to disintegrate every available entrance to the Labyrinth. I hope Sudder Dunset gets fed up

with being second banana and decides to govern for real instead of being a puppet.

Most of all, I hope that wonderfully bizarre futures I haven’t conceived for Oversoul come to pass. I believe the gamers of the world are weirder

than I can ever imagine them to be, and, to date, they’ve never let me down on that score. I anxiously await hearing what they do with this town,

especially their creative ways of blowing it to smithereens.

Before I duck out, I need to thank the others of Team Oversoul who made this what it is: Todd Crapper made it possible; Sean Frolich, Clayton

Bunce, and Kathleen Hardy made it pretty; Craig McNamee and his playtestin’ band made it make more sense, and George "Clay" Mitchell just

plain made it better. None of them ever broke down and called me a bleedin’ moron in the course of the project, and that means a lot to me.

JMH/3-2004

T HE L ABYRINTH OF O VERSOUL

Tablle of Contents

One Step Ahead........1

Wellcome to Oversoull

Introduction and Brief History....10, The Labyrinth....11, Entering the Labyrinth....12, Government of Oversoul....12

The Factiions

Temple Faction....13, Jester's Rope....14, Blond Rope....15, Bloodhooks....16, Orc Hole....18

Benefiits of Factiion Membershiip........18

Mayor Sudder Dunset........19

Oversoull Today........20

Oversoull

Back Markets....22, The Brink....23, Cliff's Edge....23, The Cobble....23, Dwarf Quarter....24, Faction Housing....25, The Ledger....26, Manor Homes....27,

Merchant's Highway....28, The Mouth....29, Orc Tents....29, Phoenix Estates....30, The Pond....31, Smoldering Ruins....31, Trader's Lane....32, The Warrens....34

Speciifiic Locatiions - The Ciity

The Blond Rope....36, The Bloodhook Faction....36, The Bugbear Mound....36, The Bull's-Eye Lantern....37, The Clever Gnome....39, The Circle in the Pond....40,

The Dwarven Hall....38, Eskellan Bell's Home....43, The Giant's Mound....41, The Jester's Rope....35, Kinsel Bown's Home....42, The Mossmen's Grove....382,

The Orc Hole....38, The Shaft....40, The Spinning Star....37, The Stronghold....36, The Temple....34, The Watchtower....35

The Labyriinth

First Level....44, Second Level....50, Third Level....56

Items from the Labyriinth........60

New Monsters

Mossmen....62, Gremallon....64

New Prestiige Cllass:: Cavern Master........56

Adversariies and Alllliies

Faction Members....68, Foes and Monsters....69, Notable NPCs....73

Maps

Oversoul City Map....Inside Cover, Labyrinth, Level One....79, Labyrinth, Level Two.....80, Labyrinth, Level Three....81

Siidebars

Adding Maze Templates....57, City of Oversoul Stats....22, Dwarf Culture in Oversoul....25, Factions Not Chosen....19, First Level Maze's Stats....45,

The Labyrinth is not a Labyrinth....12, Linking Oversoul with Mazes....11, NPC Stats....22, A Peaceful Town?....20, Second Level Maze's Stats....50,

Technical Stats for the Labyrith....47, Third Level Maze's Stats....58, Touching the Rocks....31, The Truth about Eskellan Bell....15,

The Smoldering Ruins' Wealthiest Resident....32, Wall Inscriptions....46

Tablles

Cavern Master Level Progression....66, First Level Random Encounter Table....45, Pond Laborer Ability Table....40, Ranking the Factions....18,

Second Level Random Encounter Table....50, Second Level Room Contents....56, Third Level Random Room Contents....59

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